Introduction

おはよう　ございます。
はじめまして。
ハンセン　です。
みて　くだちい　おねがいします。
いちねんせい　です。
どうぞ　よろしく。
じゃあ　また。

First Post, or Why to Never Let Thomas Choose Titles for Things

おはよう　ございます、こんにちは、or こんばんは！

So why study Japanese? With my language requirement out of the way, and so many interesting classes, why dive into a difficult language in which I have no experience?  The simplest answer is I am very vulnerable to reverse psychology.  Seriously though, I came to college hoping to challenge myself and didn't want to avoid learning another language just because I didn't have to.  I didn't want to take another romance language, and I don't think I could ever learn the massive number of icons required for Chinese, so Japanese seemed like a nice option which I might be able to use from time to time.

It's hard to say I'm particularly excited about any part of the class, but if I had to choose one, it would probably be learning a whole bunch of letters entirely different from the Roman one typically used.  うぁちろゔぇ is complete nonsense, (as far as I know) but it still looks cool.

The hardest part I've run into so far is remembering the exact combination of letters in something long like しつれい　します.  I'll mess it up in some way like しすねい　しもす, which doesn't sound different enough to me for me to realize my mistake, but is still wrong.

So until next time, しつれい　します！ (triple checked that, got it right this time)